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...World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur about heritage. "Encroachments have been terrible," he says. "Upkeep is awful." To a great extent, he blames Indian officials for what he calls a "total lack of civic governance and discipline." In a plan that delights Thakur, Kant says all shops, hotels and stalls built on historic sites will be demolished and their successors kept at least 3 km away, a process he has started with the eviction...
...18th and early 19th centuries, there was one thing that astounded all visitors to New Delhi: the ruins. For miles in every direction, half-collapsed and overgrown, robbed and reoccupied, and neglected by all, lay the remains of 600 years of trans-Indian imperium. Hammams (steam baths) and palaces, thousand-pillared halls and mighty tomb towers, empty temples and half-deserted Sufi shrines?there seemed to be no end to the litter of the ages. "The prospect towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the crumbling remains of gardens, pavilions, and burying places," wrote British...
...Delhi designed by the great Edwin Lutyens?are fast disappearing: all those in private hands were demolished between 1980 and 2000. Last autumn, India's Central Public Works Department announced that the same fate now awaits the Lutyens bungalows owned by the government?despite the fact that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is currently proposing that Lutyens' New Delhi be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The destruction of probably the world's greatest colonial townscape would be an act of cultural vandalism comparable to the bulldozing of Bath or Washington, D.C. Yet in New Delhi...
...than nine limestone stacks; they were given their current title in 1922 in hopes of drawing more tourists than they had attracted under their previous name, the Sow and Piglets. According to one witness, the rock "shuddered, then fractured and collapsed straight down on itself" before falling into the Indian Ocean...
...India and Pakistan are to make peace, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh noted a few days ago, people have to want it. An attack by six suspected Muslim militants on a contested religious site at Ayodhya in northern India triggered protests last week, as Hindus marched in New Delhi shouting "Down, down Pakistan!" and forced roads and shops to close across the country. Police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators and arrested some 3,000 people. "I have always maintained that we need to carry public opinion to make a success of the peace process," Singh warned as he appealed...